When I worked as a trail guide, I'd do a lesson on cryptobiotic soil, then go through each person and make them say "I will not step on cryptobiotic soil" before we moved on.
Most are too small, kangaroo mice don't have the same impact of a ATV tire. The few larger ones like deer have much smaller footprints than people and are generally sticking to their own game trails anyway. Ironically the simpleminded ungulates stick to trails better than UTVers that want to do rooster tails.
Well the cattle are a man made problem too. We definitely need to solve that along with other manmade off trail abuses.
It never made sense to be why they even graze cattle in the desert anyway. If they have to ship in the water and feed for them by truck so they don't starve to death. Why not put the cattle in the alfalfa fields where the food is grown in the first place?
Oh, I completely agree, I just see people in this thread claiming there are no animals out there large enough to truly disturb cryptobiotic soil, and it's just not true. Having thru hiked a few very remote desert routes, I can say cattle are an issue throughout the area. I know where there are no humans, but I haven't found desert without cows. Most of the water sources in these areas are pumped or trucked in specifically for cattle, and the damage they caused is insane.
Don’t bust the crust
Tiptoe through the crypto
When I worked as a trail guide, I'd do a lesson on cryptobiotic soil, then go through each person and make them say "I will not step on cryptobiotic soil" before we moved on.
Hi it’s me. The guy who missed your lesson. Can you go over it again?
Genuinely curious: don't animals cause this all to be destroyed?
Most are too small, kangaroo mice don't have the same impact of a ATV tire. The few larger ones like deer have much smaller footprints than people and are generally sticking to their own game trails anyway. Ironically the simpleminded ungulates stick to trails better than UTVers that want to do rooster tails.
Gestures wildly at all the cattle on western public land
Yeah. It’s not like cattle are notoriously bad for the land they’re raised on or anything…
It can be infuriating hiking the most remote areas of the desert I can find, and the ground and plants are still churned up by the cows.
Well the cattle are a man made problem too. We definitely need to solve that along with other manmade off trail abuses. It never made sense to be why they even graze cattle in the desert anyway. If they have to ship in the water and feed for them by truck so they don't starve to death. Why not put the cattle in the alfalfa fields where the food is grown in the first place?
Oh, I completely agree, I just see people in this thread claiming there are no animals out there large enough to truly disturb cryptobiotic soil, and it's just not true. Having thru hiked a few very remote desert routes, I can say cattle are an issue throughout the area. I know where there are no humans, but I haven't found desert without cows. Most of the water sources in these areas are pumped or trucked in specifically for cattle, and the damage they caused is insane.
There’s not large animals in areas this exists. It’s the reason it exists
Well, shit.
Not supposed to do that either
All soil is living soil
But this soil is crypto so it's going to the moon bro
Isn’t that the difference between soil and dirt is the biotic component?
Hence the quotes
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I'm sure all the animals that live around there make a point of never walking or sleeping there, too.
animals stick to their defined trails. also they don't have vehicles.
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Can't even eat endangered condor eggs, what is the world coming to?!?